Monday, 28 September 2009

Twit twit .... twitterer

Well it's the last leg of the journey.....
I like the Seomoz web Awards page best because it groups a whole range of different categories of applications & web pages together. It helps group things together and distinguish one from the other so that if i chose to, i could visit and compare similar applications & make an (informed) decision.
I don't like twittering -- the whole notion that people must document whatever they do as a means of showing that they're either up with the technology or so self absorbed in the minimalia of their lives that they must post -- must be other people who have nothing better to do who will read them.

Sunday, 20 September 2009



Well this is interesting-- image seems to upload if you save to desktop but only publishes as a link if you try to copy and paste the image URL -- not simple or obvious enough.
Thanks to Canadian Veggie for the image
Riomaggiore

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Cinque Terre is a part of Italy that I would dearly love to go to one day before I get too old & decrepit.

Photos & videos

Ok, so I spent a bit of time on Flicker--- gee there's so much there can't help but wonder, if there should ever be a need for any photography books to ever be published again??
Ok, so it's not too bad f0r a bit of armchair travelogue & giving one itchy feet --- but there's a whole lot of stuff that even Dilbert would wonder -- why why oh why?? The answer.... because they can..duuuhh!!!
Ok ok so i'm being one-eyed--- some would say no eyes -- just look at portrait of Anahit !!

There are lots of images I would love to upload but I just can't be bothered reading up & retaining the guff about what's copyright free what is not, what's ok with attribution what is not--it should be simple to work out.
Now let's see if I can upload an image

What about uploading Youtube clip?



Monday, 24 August 2009

RSS feeds and Podcasts

Ah, most interesting morning learning abt RSS feeds.
It seems to be easy enough to subscribe to an RSS feed and podcast.
I guess they are useful if you want to subscribe anything and everything from a certain source.
For example i am interested in ABC/rn programs :Life Matters" and " the National Interest' but by subscribing/ adding an RSS feed I will be notified of all programs, whereas I may really only be interested in certain issues , say aged care, local government or a limited range of topics.
So, for me the value of a feed would be for the software & providers source to enable me to tag/limit the feed only to the topics I am interested in.
If I really want to know anything and everything I can go to the web site.
Of course this means spending endless hours whipping around in cyberspace to find those web sites then adding RSS feeds to my a/c. If only one has all that time to spare...

Monday, 3 August 2009

My wiki-d wiki-d ways

Oh to feel the energy of wanting to start a wiki --- don't read too closely between the lines. Is it that all these bloggers actually have something to say, are they really genuine authors or auteurs manques who will only see themselves in print is through the web?
Who is to say...perhaps one needs the spare time to just whip around in cyberspace and perhaps something will grow out of it..
Words used to explain things are all well & good but one can become lost in the many words used to explain something and lose sight of the object . One must have a need for a tool in order to want to learn how to use it ; but just to learn the use of the tool is difficult without a purpose. ohhhhhh I just feel like fred bassett.